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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [‎453v] (909/1814)

The record is made up of 2 volumes with inserts (898 folios). It was created in 1892-1924. It was written in English, Urdu and German. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS IN GENERAL LITERATURE
I
Epochs of Modern History.—
Cox’s (Rev. Sir G. W.) The Crusades.
With a Map.
Creighton’s (Rev. M.) The Age of
Elizabeth. With 5 Maps.
Gairdner’s (J.) The Houses of Lancaster
and York ; with the Conquest and
Loss of France. With 5 Maps.
Gardiner’s (S. R.)The First Two Stuarts
and the Puritan Revolution (1603-
1660). With 4 Maps.
The Thirty Years’ War (1618-
1648). With a Map.
Gardiner’s (Mrs. S. R.) The French
Revolution (1789-1795). With 7 Maps.
Hale’s (Rev. E.) The Fall of the Stuarts ;
and Western Europe (1678-1697).
With 11 Maps and Plans.
Johnson’s (Rev. A. H.) The Normans in
Europe. With 3 Maps.
Longman’s (F. W.) Frederick the Great
and the Seven Years’ War. With 2
Maps.
Ludlow’s (j. M.) The War of American
Independence (1775-1783). With4Maps.
McCarthy’s (Justin) The Epoch of Re
form (1830-1850).
Moberly’s (Rev. C. E.) The Early Tu
dors.
Morris’s (E. E.) The Age of Anne, j
With 7 Maps and Plans.
The Early Hanoverians. With
9 Maps and Plans.
Seebohm’s (F.) The Era of the Protes
tant Revolution. With 4 Maps.
Stubbs’ (Right Rev. W.) The Early j
Plantagenets. With 2 Maps.
Warburton’s (Rev. W.) Edward the
I hird. With 3 Maps.
Epochs of Church History. Ed
ited by Mandell Creighton, D.D.,
Bishop of Peterborough. Fcp, 8vo. 2s.
6 d. each.
Balzani’s (U.) The Popes and the Ko-
henstaufen.
Brodrick’s (Hon. G. C.) A History of
the University of Oxford.
Carr’s (Rev. A.) The Church and the
Roman Empire.
Gwatkin’s (H. M.) The Arian Contro
versy.
Hunt’s (Rev. W.) The English Church
in the Middle Ages.
Mullinger’s (J.*B.) A History of the
University of Cambridge.
Overton’s (Rev. J. H.) The Evangelical
Revival in the Eighteenth Century.
Epochs of Church History.— cont.
Perry’s (Rev. G. G.) The History of
the Reformation in England.
Plummer’s (A.) The Church of the Early
Fathers.
Poole’s (R. L.) Wycliffe and Early
Movements of Reform.
Stephen’s (Rev. W. R. W.) Hildebrand
and his Times.
Tozer’s (Rev. _H. F.) The Church and
the Eastern Empire.
Tucker’s (Rev. H. W.) The English
Church in other Lands.
Wake man’s (H. O.) The Church and the
Puritans (1570-1660,)
Ward’s (A. W.) The Counter-Reforma
tion.
Epochs of Ancient History.
Edited by the Rev. Sir G. W. Cox,
Bart., M.A., and by C. Sankey, M.x\.
10 volumes, Fcp. ovo. with Maps, 2s. 6 d.
each.
Beesly’s (A. H.) The Gracchi, Marius,
and Sulla. With 2 Maps.
Capes’ (Rev. W. W.) The Early Ro
man Empire. From the Assassination of
Julius Ctesar to the Assassination of Domi-
tian. With 2 Maps.
—— The Roman Empire of the
Second Century, or the Age of the
Antonines. With 2 Maps.
Cox’s (Rev. Sir G. W.) The Athenian
Empire from the Flight of Xerxes to
the Fall of Athens. With 5 Maps.
The Greeks and the Persians.
With 4 Maps.
Curteis’s (A. M.) The Rise of the Mace
donian umpire. With 8 Maps.
Ihne’s (W.) Rome to its Capture by the
Gauls. With a Map.
Merivale’s (Very Rev. C.) The Roman
Triumvirates. With a Map.
Sankey’s (C.) The Spartan and
Theban Supremacies. With 5 Maps.
Smith’s (R. B.) Rome and Carthage,
the Punic Wars. With 9 Maps and
Plans.
Epochs of American History.
Edited by Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart,
Assistant Professor of History in Harvard
College.
Hart’s (A. B.) Formation of the Union
(1763-1829). Fcp. 8vo. [In preparation.
Thwaites’s (R. G.) The Colonies (1492-
1763). Fcp. 8vo. 35. 6 d. [Ready.
Wilson’s (W.) Division and Re-union
(1829-1889). Fcp. 8vo. [In preparation.

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These two volumes are George Curzon's own personal annotated copies of both volumes of his book Persia and the Persian Question , which was published in 1892. Alongside the volumes are various loose papers relating to Persia [Iran], consisting of the following: received correspondence; newspaper cuttings; publishers' press releases; cuttings from various booksellers' catalogues; various journal and magazine articles; two items of printed official British correspondence; several prints of photographs and sketches; and a few handwritten notes by Curzon.

In most cases these papers, which range in date from 1892 to 1924, relate to the chapters in the book where they were originally inserted, suggesting that they were kept by Curzon with the intention of using them to inform a revised edition of the book.

Of particular note among the small amount of correspondence are two letters received by Curzon in 1914 and 1915 from retired schoolmaster and Islamic scholar Sayyid Mazhar Hasan Musawi of Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India (ff 5-9 and ff 44-53). These letters, which are written in Urdu and are accompanied by English translations, discuss in detail several inaccuracies found in the Urdu version of Persia and the Persian Question .

The various prints of photographs and sketches, which were originally inserted into volume two, are of different locations in the Gulf region. Several of these appear to have been produced in preparation for the publication of the second volume of John Gordon Lorimer's Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Oman and Central Arabia (i.e. the 'Geographical and Statistical' section) in 1908, as they are identical to the versions found in that volume.

Also of note among the loose papers are an illustrated article from Country Life dated 5 June 1920, entitled 'The People of Persia' (ff 36-37), and a printed family tree of the Shah of Persia [Aḥmad Shah Qājār], produced in preparation of his visit to Britain in 1919 (f 233).

Volume one of Persia and the Persian Question contains a map of Persia, Afghanistan and Beluchistan [Balochistan], which is folded inside the front cover (f 1).

The German language material consists of a publisher's press release for two books authored by German archaeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld (ff 29-30).

Extent and format
2 volumes with inserts (898 folios)
Physical characteristics

Foliation: this shelfmark consists of two physical volumes. The foliation sequence commences at the first folio of volume one (1-463), and terminates at the last folio of volume two (ff 464-898); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Each volume contains a large number of loose leaves, which have been foliated in the order that they were inserted into the volume; for conservation reasons, these loose folios have been removed from the volume and stored separately. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers of the two volumes.

Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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English, Urdu and German in Latin and Arabic script
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